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Download full textCommission on Civil Rights, Washington, DC. – 1966
A 1966 report of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights deals with the status of school desegregation standards under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The document reviews the judicial context of the rate and method of desegregation and describes the statement of policies issued by the U.S. Office of Education (OE). Also included are…
Descriptors: Civil Rights Legislation, Court Litigation, Desegregation Methods, Federal Aid
Smedley, T. A. – Race Relations Reporter, 1973
Reviews the activity of the Supreme Court and of a number of lower federal courts encouraged by the attitude expressed by the Supreme Court in the 1971 Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education case; and the various forms of opposition to busing. (JM)
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Constitutional History, Court Litigation, Desegregation Litigation
Uchitelle, Susan – New Schools, New Communities, 1996
The experience of St. Louis (Missouri) has shown that desegregation has fueled educational reform, and that it is important for communities to understand its benefits in order to work toward maintaining the components that have benefited all children, regardless of race. The interdistrict transfer program has been largely successful. (SLD)
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Desegregation Methods, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Clinchy, Evans; Kolb, Frances Arick, Ed. – 1989
Controlled choice is a method of desegregation that is voluntary, empowers parents and school staff, and leads to new and exciting school organization and curriculum. To move in the direction of controlled choice, substantial changes in present school organization and operation must be made. This planning guide, based upon the actual experiences…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Desegregation Methods, Elementary Secondary Education, Free Choice Transfer Programs
LEESON, JIM – 1968
THIS ARTICLE DESCRIBES THE POLICY OF THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION AND WELFARE FOR ENFORCING SCHOOL DESEGREGATION GUIDELINES. THE NEW GOAL SET BY THE U.S. OFFICE OF EDUCATION'S COMPLIANCE SECTION, THE OFFICE OF CIVIL RIGHTS, IS TO END THE DUAL SCHOOL SYSTEM IN THE SOUTH BY 1969. MANY CIVIL RIGHTS WORKERS CONTEND THAT THE NEW DEADLINE IS…
Descriptors: Black Students, Civil Rights Legislation, Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Methods
Helms, Lelia – 1970
This report is based on results from a panel study of residents of Penfield, N.Y., a community instituting a suburban-urban transfer with the City School District of Rochester in September 1968. Two interviews were conducted in September 1968 and in June 1969 with the same respondents: a random sample of district resident, a random sample of…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Community Support, Desegregation Methods, Parent Attitudes
Commission on Civil Rights, Washington, DC. – 1972
These reports on school integration in Pasadena (California), Tampa-Hillsborough (Florida), Charlotte-Mecklenburg and Winston-Salem/Forsyth (North Carolina), and Pontiac (Michigan) are based on interviews and material gathered by Commission on Civil Rights staff members from January 10, 1972, through March 29, 1972. In each school district staff…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Methods, Desegregation Plans
McMilan, Hollis; And Others – 1972
This paper provides summary information on each district policy and an objective comparative analysis between districts regarding transfers requested and transfers granted in relation to school size. Findings indicate that the smallest districts have no written transfer policies, the next largest have rigidly defined policies, and the largest have…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Metropolitan Areas, Research Methodology, School Administration
ENGLISH, JAMES F., JR.; JUDD, HARLAN C. – 1967
RECOGNIZING THEIR FINANCIAL STAKE IN THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC HEALTH OF THE COMMUNITY, HARTFORD BUSINESS LEADERS THROUGH THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE HAVE BEEN WORKING TO REMEDY THE SOCIAL ILLS ENDEMIC TO THE CENTRAL AREAS OF THE CITY. SOME OF THE PROBLEMS HAVE RESULTED FROM A GROWING EXODUS OF WHITE PERSONS FROM CITY TO SUBURBAN AREAS AND A…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Business Responsibility, Community Cooperation, Community Leaders
Hartford City Board of Education, CT. – 1967
THE BACKGROUND AND PRESENT STATUS OF PROJECT CONCERN, A 2-YEAR DESEGREGATION PROJECT IN HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, ARE DESCRIBED IN THIS REPORT. ABOUT 260 MINORITY GROUP PUPILS FROM EIGHT INNER-CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS ARE BEING BUSED TO SCHOOLS IN FIVE OUTLYING SUBURBAN AREAS. STATE AND LOCAL TAX MONIES, PRIVATE FOUNDATION FUNDS, AND A FEDERAL GRANT…
Descriptors: Black Students, Bus Transportation, Cooperative Programs, Disadvantaged Youth
MORRELL, KEN – 1968
THE STEPS TAKEN TO DESEGREGATE THE OAK RIDGE, TENN., SCHOOLS ARE DESCRIBED IN THIS ARTICLE. ONE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, SEGREGATED BECAUSE OF RESIDENTIAL PATTERNS, WAS CLOSED AND ITS STUDENTS REDISTRIBUTED AMONG OTHER SCHOOLS IN THE CITY. UNDER THE INITIATIVE OF THE SCHOOL BOARD, THIS PLAN WENT INTO EFFECT IN THE FALL OF 1967 AND IS SAID TO HAVE…
Descriptors: Black Students, Board of Education Role, Bus Transportation, Data
Bartley, Glenda; And Others – 1968
The first section of this document narrates Southern resistance to integration from 1964 to 1967, and the second relates the weakening of civil rights legislation through the influence of Southern Congressmen and other moderates in Congress. A detailed discussion of the Macon County and Jefferson County (Alabama) school desegregation decisions is…
Descriptors: Civil Rights Legislation, Desegregation Litigation, Discriminatory Legislation, Federal Government
Anker, Irving – 1974
Based on the firm conviction that integrated schools are vital to our efforts to provide quality education for all children, the New York City Board of Education has continued to assume a leadership role in developing and supporting programs aimed at reducing minority group isolation. A variety of techniques has been employed: selection of sites…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Decentralization, Educational Administration, Ethnic Distribution
Dawson, Judith A. – 1973
This report is a continuing analysis of the achievement of ethnic minority children who are bused for integration, and of other children attending the schools receiving bused pupils. The findings reported here are limited to children in the primary grades. The achievement of kindergarten and first grade bused and "receiving" pupils has…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Surveys, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Methods
Wahab, Zaher – 1981
An indepth account of the conflict around the education of black students in Portland, Oregon, begins with a summary of the history of segregated schools since 1867. The paper presents a multidimentional analysis of school segregation and integration. Educational statistics are cited illustrating that academic achievement of blacks, who today…
Descriptors: Black Education, Board of Education Policy, Busing, Conflict
